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BioWare On Why Making a Blockbuster Game Is a Poor Goal
BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk spoke at the 2010 Develop Conference about the current focus within the video game industry on making huge, blockbuster titles, and why that is the wrong approach. Quoting Gamasutra's coverage:
"'While blockbuster game creation is everything that most game developers working today growing up wanted to do, it's precisely the wrong thing to chase in gaming's contemporary landscape.' Risk-taking from publishers and investors has dramatically declined in recent times, the Mass Effect and Dragon Age studio-runner noted: 'As a result, innovation and creativity [are] being squeezed. Where the bottom of the market had dropped out at one point, now it’s the middle of the market has dropped out. Unless you can be in the top ten releases at one given time, it's unlikely that a triple-A game is going to make money.'"
Zeschuk also commented that consoles aren't necessarily the future of game platforms, and that BioWare is experimenting with smaller scale MMO development in addition to working on their much larger upcoming Star Wars title.
When your self-delusion prevents you from eliding the contradictions and just saying "multiplayer game" then you've abandoned any attempt to communicate clearly what it is that you're trying to achieve. Can you imagine being given a design brief or a development spec for a "small massive" game? You'd waste half your time just trying to reveal the egomaniac who insists on calling it that as the Buzzword Bingo 'tard that they clearly are.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
a strong compelling story (like Final Fantasy)
Mod parent troll.
Anonymous Coward just demonstrated the flaw with /.'s mod system. Obviously he disagrees with me that FF has compelling stories, which is fine. Not everyone likes Final Fantasy. But the way to express that disagreement is through REPLIES which say, "I disagree" not through using the mod system to make the post invisible (0) or (-1). Not through censorship.
I also suspect AC is the person who did the -1 Overrated on my post. Thanks. :-|
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